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Coronavirus plays a heavy hand 10 best video games of 2020
The pandemic created the one of the most unusual years for gaming, but also one of the most lucrative. As the movie and music industries hit pause over coronavirus concerns, video games kept chugging along, proving the industry’s resilience.
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Ellie has several flashback over the course of the campaign filling in the narrative gaps between the events of the sequel and the original in "The Last of Us Part II." It's my favorite game of the year. (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Videogames are a bigger industry than movies and North American sports combined, thanks to
A previous version of this report stated that PwC expected the global sports industry to be worth $75 billion in 2020. That figure was for North America. The story has been updated.
Videogames have grown to resemble competition-based, interactive movies, and the COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the industry to make more money than movies and North American sports combined.
Global videogame revenue is expected to surge 20% to $179.7 billion in 2020, according to IDC data, making the videogame industry a bigger moneymaker than the global movie and North American sports industries combined. The global film industry reached $100 billion in revenue for the first time in 2019, according to the Motion Picture Association, while PwC estimated North American sports would bring in more than $75 billion in 2020 .
Investor sues video game studio over buggy 'Cyberpunk 2077'
Players have already expressed their disappointment in 'Cyberpunk 2077,' perhaps the year's most anticipated video game. Now, it's investors' turn.
An investor in CD Projekt, the studio behind 'Cyberpunk 2077,' sued the company and its executives Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles, claiming that they hyped the game with false and misleading statements and cost him and other investors money.
Eight million people pre-ordered copies of 'Cyberpunk 2077,' a sci-fi game set in a futuristic fantasy city with movie star Keanu Reeves as the basis of one character. But many players quickly soured on the game after it shipped this month, noting a series of glitches and calling the development sloppy.
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Worldwide Industry for Video Game Software to 2030 - Featuring Action Forms, Activision Blizzard
Dublin, Dec. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Video Game Software Global Market Opportunities and Strategies to 2030: COVID-19 Impact and Recovery" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
This report provides the strategists, marketers and senior management with the critical information they need to assess the global video game software market.
The global video game software market reached a value of nearly $167,220.2 million in 2019, having increased at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.0% since 2015. The market is expected to decline from $167,220.2 million in 2019 to $166,439.7 million in 2020 at a rate of -0.5%.
The decline is mainly due to lockdown and social distancing norms imposed by various countries and economic slowdown across countries owing to the COVID-19 outbreak and the measures to contain it.
KFC cooks up video game console that plays games, stores hot chicken
KFC , the famous fried chicken subsidiary of Yum! Brands and runner-up for world's biggest restaurant chain by sales, is apparently moving ahead with its plan to release the KFConsole, a high-powered gaming computer that also keeps chicken warm. Made to resemble a fried chicken bucket in general outline, the PC features a high-performance gaming setup that supports virtual reality (VR) and 4K TV games, according to IGN and other sources.
Other specs include an Intel Nuc9 Extreme Compute Element, a frame rate of 240 frames per second (fps), and a 1-terabyte SSD from Seagate, Engadget reports. Neither KFC nor the KFConsole's maker Cooler Master has indicated a price at this point, but the Intel Nuc9 alone costs $3,100.
The best sports video games of 2020: NBA 2K21, MLB The Show 20, F1 2020 - Polygon
Unfortunate as it is, it has also been a unique opportunity for the video games supporting these leagues to shine. Everything went indoors this past spring, and sports fans could be found nesting with their favorite games on their couches, along with cinephiles bingeing Netflix, and gamers immersing themselves in their open worlds.
This year, Polygon's Samit Sarkar and Owen Good opted out of nominating and determining a sports video game of the year , which, in the last year of a console generation, would be drawn from largely incremental updates to established titles.
2020 Was a Year for Gaming — Our Top 10 Video Games of the Year
Jackbox games are great to play with friends, but even in a time when we're all stuck apart, the new Jackbox Party Pack 7 still managed to bring people together as players tuned in over Zoom calls. None of the games in this pack were a bust, making it well worth the money. As a bonus, Jackbox Party Pack 7 will have a special New Year's Eve episode launching soon for your remote NYE celebrations!
The open-world adventure game was largely hyped before its release, and it's understandable why. The game's world is undoubtedly beautiful, and if you're a fan of cinematic titles, it's worth it to check out for that alone.
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